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Beckton
Beckton shown within Greater London
OS grid reference	TQ435815
London borough	Newham
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LONDON
Postcode district	E6
Dialling code	020
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
European Parliament	London
UK Parliament	East Ham
London Assembly	City and East
List of places: UK • England • London

Coordinates: 51°30′53″N 0°04′02″E / 51.5146, 0.0673

Beckton is a place in the London Borough of Newham, England, located 8 miles (12. Greater London is the top-level administrative subdivision covering London, England. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude The districts of England are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government The London Borough of Newham ( is a London borough in East London, within Greater London. The ceremonial counties are areas of England that are appointed a Lord-Lieutenant, and are defined by the government as the Counties for the purposes of the Lieutenancies Greater London is the top-level administrative subdivision covering London, England. The region, also known as the government office region, is currently the highest tier of local government sub-national entity of England, with only one Greater London is the top-level administrative subdivision covering London, England. Constituent country is a phrase used often by official institutions in contexts in which a country makes up a part of a larger entity or grouping England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland This list of sovereign states, alphabetically arranged gives an overview of States around the world with information on the extent of their Sovereignty. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A post town is a required part of all postal addresses in the United Kingdom, and a basic unit of the postal delivery system The London postal district is the area in England, currently of 241 square miles to which mail addressed to the LONDON Post town is delivered UK Postal codes are known as postcodes. UK postcodes are Alphanumeric. The E (Eastern postcode area, also known as the London E postcode area, is the part of the London postal district covering much of east London, England The UK Telephone numbering plan, also known as the National Telephone Numbering Plan, is the system used for assigning Telephone numbers in the United There are a number of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom. "Metropolitan Police" redirects here See also Metropolitan police. The fire service in the United Kingdom operates under separate legislative and administrative arrangements in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and The London Fire Brigade ( LFB) is the statutory The London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS is the largest "free at the point of contact" ambulance service in the world that does not directly charge its patients London is a Constituency of the European Parliament. It currently elects 9 MEPs using the D'Hondt method of Party-list proportional This is a list of the 646 constituencies currently represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as at the 2005 general election East Ham is a Constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, in the London Borough of Newham. Greater London is divided into fourteen territorial constituencies for London Assembly elections each returning one member City and East is a Constituency represented in the London Assembly. A Gazetteer of place names in the United Kingdom showing each place's County, Unitary authority or council area and its geographical coordinates List of places --> List of cities in the United Kingdom List of towns in England Lists of places This is a partial list of places in London, England See List of places in England for lists of settlements in other counties A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. The London Borough of Newham ( is a London borough in East London, within Greater London. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland 9 km) east of Charing Cross. Charing Cross is located at the junction of the Strand, Whitehall and Cockspur Street in Central London, England.

Its boundaries are the A13 trunk road to the north, Barking Creek to the east, the Royal Docks to the south, and Prince Regent Lane to the west. Barking Creek joins the River Roding to the River Thames. It is tidal though there is a partial lock and weir in Barking The Royal Docks comprise three docks in east London - the Royal Albert Dock, the Royal Victoria Dock and the King George V Dock. The area around Prince Regent Lane is also known as Custom House. Custom House is an area in the London Borough of Newham in London, England. Modern Beckton is divided into East Beckton, Mid Beckton, North Beckton, West Beckton, and Cyprus (named for the British capture of Cyprus from the Ottoman Empire in 1878, which occurred as the original estate was being built). Cyprus (Κύπρος transliterated: Kýpros,; Kıbrıs officially the Republic of Cyprus (Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία Kypriakī́ Dīmokratía The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish

History

Until 1965 Beckton was part of Essex and from 1894 it was divided between Barking Urban District (later municipal borough) and East Ham Urban District (later county borough). Essex is a county in the East of England. The County town is Chelmsford, and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common Barking was a local government district in south west Essex, England from 1894 to 1965 East Ham was a local government district in the far south west of Essex from 1878 to 1965 A small area on the Thames was historically part of the Woolwich parish of Kent and became part of the County of London in 1889. KENT (1400 AM) is a Radio station broadcasting a Adult Standards/MOR format The County of London was a ceremonial county and administrative county of England from 1889 to 1965 It formed part of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich from 1899 until it was transferred to Newham in 1965. The Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich was a Metropolitan borough in the County of London from 1900 to 1965

Situated north and east of the Royal Docks, the area was formerly heavily industrialised, and was the location of Beckton Gas Works, the largest gasworks in Europe, which served the capital; the area itself was named after Simon Adams Beck, the governor of the Gas Light and Coke Company when work began on the site in November 1868. Beckton Gas Works was a major London gas works built to manufacture Coal gas and other products including coke from coal This is a historical article For current information see Syngas. The Gas Light and Coke Company (also known as the Westminster Gas Light and Coke Company was a company involved in the business of Gas lighting and Coking. An adjacent by-products works also produced a wide variety of products including ink, dyes, mothballs, and fertilisers, all by-products of the process of turning coal to coke in the production of town gas. Beckton Gas Works was a major London gas works built to manufacture Coal gas and other products including coke from coal When Britain switched from town gas to North Sea natural gas in 1969, the gasworks closed. The North Sea is a marginal, Epeiric sea of the Atlantic Ocean on the European Continental shelf.

The other major Beckton industry, the sewage treatment works, is still thriving. First established in 1864 as part of Joseph Bazalgette's scheme to remove sewage (and hence reduce disease) from London by creating two huge sewer pipes from the capital, one on each side of the Thames and known as the Southern and Northern Outfall Sewers. Sir Joseph William Bazalgette ( 28 March 1819 &ndash 15 March 1891) was one of the great English Civil engineers of The Southern Outfall Sewer is a major Sewer taking Sewage from the southern area of Central London to Crossness in south-east London The Northern Outfall Sewer (NOS is a major gravity Sewer which runs from Wick Lane in Hackney to Beckton Sewage Works in east London (east of Stratford The Beckton sewage works, at the end of the northern outfall, is Britain's largest and is now managed by Thames Water. Thames Water, known originally as the Thames Water Authority and after privatisation as Thames Water Utilities Limited, is the utility responsible The outfall sewer has been landscaped and now also serves as the Greenway cycle track through East London. East London is the name commonly given to the north eastern part of London, England on the north side of the River Thames. Originally sewage was pumped untreated into the Thames, and this contributed to the high death toll in the 1878 Princess Alice disaster, when over 600 died in Britain's worst inshore shipping tragedy. SS Princess Alice was a Thames river steamer which sank after a collision in 1878 with the loss of an estimated 640 lives The site was mooted in 2005 as the location for a desalination plant, but the proposal was rejected by Mayor Ken Livingstone as environmentally unacceptable. Desalination, desalinization, or desalinisation refers to any of several processes that remove excess salt and other Minerals from Water Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945 is a British Socialist Politician.

Prefabricated post-war home at Chiltern Open Air Museum: Universal House, steel frame clad with corrugated asbestos cement

Immediately after the Second World War, large numbers of prefabs were built in Beckton, to house those made homeless by the war. Chiltern Open Air Museum is a museum of vernacular buildings and a tourist attraction located near Chalfont St Peter and Chalfont St World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Prefabrication is the practice of assembling components of a Structure in a Factory or other Manufacturing site and Transporting complete The prefab-lined streets were all named after well-known generals and war heroes, but in the redevelopment of North Beckton in the 1980s, these were all swept away with the exception of Eisenhower Drive. Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14 1890 – March 28 1969 was President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 and a five-star general

Containerisation during the 1960s, and the development of the docks at Tilbury, released all the land from the Thames up to the A13 which had been earmarked for a new, North Albert Dock. Tilbury is a town in the borough of Thurrock, Essex, England. The Thames ( is a major River flowing through southern England. The original District Plan envisaged a large Council-owned estate, and major infrastructure works - including a huge drainage scheme with pumping stations - were put in place. However, following the creation of the London Docklands Development Corporation, much of the land was sold off resulting in today's blend of largely private housing. The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC) was a Quango agency set up by the UK Government in 1981 to regenerate the depressed

An extensive toxic spoil-heap from the Gasworks was known ironically as 'Beckton Alps'. Originally running from the Northern outfall sewer south to Winsor Terrace, this was landscaped in the 1980s. Part became a 25 metres (82 ft) high dry-ski-slope for a time, opened by Diana, Princess of Wales, with a viewing platform at the summit and a Swiss-style bar at the foot. However, the site is now derelict.

In more recent times, industry has left the area, leaving huge areas of brownfield land, and Beckton has been redeveloped as part of the Docklands project. Docklands is the semi-official name for an area in the east of London, England, comprising parts of several boroughs ( Southwark, Tower Hamlets It now comprises mainly housing and several out-of-town shopping centres, and the architecture is mostly post-1982. A shopping mall or shopping centre is a building or set of buildings that contain Retail units with interconnecting Walkways enabling visitors Small areas of Victorian housing survive in Winsor Terrace, originally built as accommodation for Gas Light and Coke Company staff, and in the 'Nottingham' estate off Prince Regent Lane. It is served by local buses and Beckton DLR station, which acts as the terminus of the DLR's Beckton branch. Beckton DLR station is the eastern terminus of the Beckton branch of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR in the Docklands area of east London The Victorian 'Cyprus' estate was rebuilt in the 1980s, but the original Cyprus public house survives (named The Ferndale, although now boarded-up, and earmarked for redevelopment, March 2008).

In the early 21st century, Beckton burgeons south and further east, towards Gallions Reach, being an essential part of the Thames Gateway. The Thames Gateway is an area of land stretching 40 miles (60 km east from inner East London on both sides of the River Thames and the Thames Estuary. "Gallions Hotel", part of the Furlong City development by the lock that links the Royal Docks to the Thames, was formerly a rail terminus which connected with passenger ships leaving for all parts of the British Empire. The British Empire was the largest empire in history and for over a century was the foremost global power. Many colonial officials and their families spent their last night in Britain in the Gallions Hotel, which was mentioned by Rudyard Kipling in his novel, The Light That Failed. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936 was an English Author and poet

Beckton in popular culture

The Gasworks were still extant — although derelict — in the early 1980s, when Stanley Kubrick's team came scouting for an area that could double for the battle scenes in his 1987 movie, Full Metal Jacket. Full Metal Jacket ( 1987) is a War film based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford. The Gasworks rough concrete structures were painted with Vietnamese script, and then strategically dynamited so as to resemble war-torn Hue. Retail parks now cover most of the Gasworks site.

Other notable movies filmed in and around the Beckton area during the 1980s included the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only, which featured extensive aerial views of the Gasworks in the pre-credit sequence. James Bond 007 is a Fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve Novels and two Short story For Your Eyes Only ( 1981) is the 12th Spy film in the James Bond series, and the fifth to star Roger Moore as MI6 Beckton was also used as a location in Michael Radford's 1984 feature film adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four — the Gasworks served as the setting for Orwell's "Proletarian Zones". Michael Radford (born February 24, 1946 in New Delhi, India to a British father and Austrian mother is an English Film Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950 who used the Pseudonym George Orwell, was an English writer Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes 1984) is a British Film based upon George Orwell 's novel of the same name

Max Headroom the UK movie was also filmed in Beckton. Edison Carter on the run from the body bank. Homeless people camping around a fire. The Big Time Television bus parked up. Bregual and Malher chasing Edison Carter. The same place as Winston's dream from 1984.

Andrew Birkin's 1990 film of Ian McEwan's novel, The Cement Garden, was also filmed in Beckton and starred French pop singer Serge Gainsbourg's daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg, who could often be seen (at the time of filming) shopping in the aisles of ASDA. Andrew Birkin (b 9 December 1945 London is an English BAFTA Award -winning Screenwriter, Actor and director Ian McEwan, CBE, FRSA, FRSL, (born June 21, 1948) is a Booker Prize -winning English Novelist The Cement Garden is a 1978 novel by Ian McEwan. It was adapted into a 1993 film of the same name by Andrew Birkin, starring Serge Gainsbourg ɡɛ̃'zbuʁ (2 April 1928 &ndash 2 March 1991 was a French Poet, Singer-songwriter, Actor and Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg (born 21 July or 22 July 1971 is a British-French actress and singer In several scenes of The Cement Garden, aircraft can be heard taxiing at the nearby London City Airport. London City Airport is a single-runway Airport, intended for use by STOL (Short Take Off and Landing Airliners and principally serving the financial Winsor House, which served as the backdrop to the movie was later demolished and the Winsor Lodge Hotel stands there now.

The 1986 movie Biggles: Adventures in Time was also filmed in Beckton; and in the opening minutes of the 2007 Simon Pegg film Hot Fuzz, the Tate & Lyle factory, Silvertown, and the City Airport aprons can be seen through the window blinds of Building 1000. Biggles Adventures in Time is a 1986 Adventure film based on the character of Biggles from the series of novels written by Captain Simon Pegg (born Simon John Beckingham; 14 February 1970) is an award-winning English Actor, Comedian, Writer Tate & Lyle PLC ( is a UK -based multinational agri-processor listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TATE.

Education

For details of education in Beckton see the List of schools in the London Borough of Newham

Gallery

Henry Addlington Close in Beckton	Gallions Hotel	Building 1000	Stonechat Square Mid-Beckton
Beckton Alps and Gasworks 1973, from the A13

Building 1000, by Royal Albert Station, is a dramatic dockside structure with a full-height glass atrium. This is a list of schools in the London Borough of Newham. The Borough is the education authority for the district providing education in a mix of Foundation, Newham Council have considered relocating some offices to Building 1000), which been the backdrop to several films. Three more similar buildings are planned on the site.

Beckton is at the western end of the London Riverside redevelopment zone of the Thames Gateway. The London Riverside is a new development area in East London, England and part of the larger Thames Gateway redevelopment zone The Thames Gateway is an area of land stretching 40 miles (60 km east from inner East London on both sides of the River Thames and the Thames Estuary. Transport for London are planning a new bridge, the Thames Gateway Bridge, which will connect Beckton to Thamesmead on the southern bank of the River Thames. Transport for London ( TfL) is the local government body responsible for most aspects of the Transport system in Greater London in England. The Thames Gateway Bridge is a proposed new crossing of the River Thames in East London. Thamesmead is a " New town " in London, England built on the southern bank of the River Thames, 9 The Thames ( is a major River flowing through southern England.

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